502 TRAXSACTIOXS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. lx. 



I^OTES FEOM THE EOYAL BOTAXIC GaEDEX, EdIXBUEGH. 



I. Eepoet ox Vegetation dueing the Month of 

 Decembee 1895. By Eobeet Lemdsay, Curator. 



Like the preceding month, December has been remark- 

 able for the extreme mildness of weather which prevailed. 

 Notwithstanding the open nature of the weather, not a 

 single plant came into flower out of doors during December, 

 although there were several plants still in blossom which 

 had been pre^'iously recorded. 



On the rock-garden the total number of alpine and 

 dwarf-growing herbaceous plants that flowered during 

 the past year amounts to 1222, as against 1143 during 

 1894. 



The number of species and varieties which came into 

 flower each month was as follows : — January and February, 



; March, 44 ; April, 133 : May, 346 ; June, 402 ; July, 

 190; August, 5 9 ; September, 4 1 ; October, 6 ; November, 



1 ; December, — total, 1222. 



